Metreweli, 47, has held series of director-level roles in foreign intelligence service and in domestic agency MI5
MI6, the UK’s foreign intelligence service, is to be led by a woman for the first time, Keir Starmer has announced.
Blaise Metreweli, a career intelligence officer who joined the service in 1999, will take over from Sir Richard Moore in the autumn, becoming its 18th chief.
